^Well, I kid a little. I wouldn't be commissioning the dude myself, though. His figures are a little too marionetty, and I think he's got a few years and few hundred more drawings before he gets to where he should be to be getting money for his art. Also, man, if I paid for a Wonder Woman piece, I'd expect a background better composed than "broken column, semen lake (I think? I have clearly missed some exciting parts of the WW mythos), and gradient fill." On the other hand, he's done these all in the last couple of weeks, probably as just "hey, let's draw" and probably did not intend these to be subjected to the same criticism I would level at a comic book I paid for. So now I feel like a jerk.
Anyway, Quitely--I'm tremendously conflicted on Quitely. Firstly, I want to say he was perfect for Flex Mentallo. His weird, skeevy people fit a weird, skeevy world.
His run on the Authority worked fine, although at the time I was really disappointed in how he was nothing like Hitch.
And I really enjoyed so much of his work on All-Star Superman, especially the composition and the storytelling and the layouts, and the way Quitely drew Luthor, along with the Fortress and other settings. On the other hand, his Lois Lane is not my cup of tea at all*, and Solaris, the Tyrant Sun mind you, is the size of a building? No. And there are, of course, the usual smattering of Quitely's Freakshow Faces. There's a panel where Clark Kent looks like Michael Myers (from Halloween, not Austin Powers). How do you spend roughly eight years on each issue and let that slip?
Then there's We3, which is the most overrated book in the history of comics, but it's not Quitely's fault. Wow, Homeward Bound with guns. I'm enthralled.
So I like Quitely too, but just a few aspects just really, really jar.
*It's possible that I'm transferring my dislike of Grant Morrison's Lois Lane onto Frank Quitely's rendition of her, though. A-SS Lane is a bitch. "Lol, Superman, go have contests with Atlas and Solomon for my amusement." "Clark Kent? Superman can't be a hick loser like Clark Kent. GTFO." "I like it when you give me things, Superman!"
Anyway, Quitely--I'm tremendously conflicted on Quitely. Firstly, I want to say he was perfect for Flex Mentallo. His weird, skeevy people fit a weird, skeevy world.
His run on the Authority worked fine, although at the time I was really disappointed in how he was nothing like Hitch.
And I really enjoyed so much of his work on All-Star Superman, especially the composition and the storytelling and the layouts, and the way Quitely drew Luthor, along with the Fortress and other settings. On the other hand, his Lois Lane is not my cup of tea at all*, and Solaris, the Tyrant Sun mind you, is the size of a building? No. And there are, of course, the usual smattering of Quitely's Freakshow Faces. There's a panel where Clark Kent looks like Michael Myers (from Halloween, not Austin Powers). How do you spend roughly eight years on each issue and let that slip?
Then there's We3, which is the most overrated book in the history of comics, but it's not Quitely's fault. Wow, Homeward Bound with guns. I'm enthralled.
So I like Quitely too, but just a few aspects just really, really jar.
*It's possible that I'm transferring my dislike of Grant Morrison's Lois Lane onto Frank Quitely's rendition of her, though. A-SS Lane is a bitch. "Lol, Superman, go have contests with Atlas and Solomon for my amusement." "Clark Kent? Superman can't be a hick loser like Clark Kent. GTFO." "I like it when you give me things, Superman!"
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